grpc
brew install grpc
v1.81.1_1
Apache-2.0
High-performance RPC framework library with code generation for services across languages.
Why you might care
gRPC is the standard for building microservices and distributed systems when you need cross-language RPC with HTTP/2 streaming and strong typing. Use it as a build dependency when generating service stubs from .proto definitions, or as a runtime library to implement gRPC clients/servers. It outperforms REST APIs on latency and throughput.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://grpc.io/
- Brew formula source: Formula/g/grpc.rb
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